German physicist who produced the
Geiger counter. He spent the period 190612 in Manchester, England, working with Ernest
Rutherford on
radioactivity. In 1908 they designed an instrument to detect and count alpha particles, positively charged ionizing particles produced by radioactive decay.
In 1928 Geiger and Walther Müller produced a more sensitive version of the counter, which could detect all kinds of ionizing radiation.
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